The bipolarity of output (AUX)

Victoria Todorov

At DISCORDIA, Melbourne

August 14 — September 11, 2021

Treasure, detritus and beauty swirl to beguile and infuriate. The hot flash of jewels, promise for a new beginning equate to purified form. Nothing to do with aspiring, a want to enforce/ dictate that nothing presented is an aspiration toward. It’s important you believe me, so we can collectively aspire to that same thing.

 

‘Radicality’ of bright words in this subdued indie Groundhog Day climate or perhaps a bold pastiche fragmented by pop lens. It’s never typically garish, not self done and intentionally undone.

 

Decoding engrained messages, spiritual elevation (that’s elitist), cult leadership, mass by mass. It’s funny like Family Guy, goofy like Loony Tunes and pretty like a flat lipo-sculpt.

 

Perceived signature style is a trope but required to navigate the money centric landscape. Purity of self expression has never been “authentic” only perceived as such.

 

Being so detached from the underground, being so detached from the mainstream, being so acquainted with the niche .. Silence and respite in the spinning of a screen. Pixels everywhere, mints, Tom Ford Lipstick, stock audience laughing track.

 

Rather than shy away, let it scatter, repeat, fester.

—  Victoria Todorov

Caviar on shell, not metal, 2021 40x45cm, Oil on canvas
Caviar on shell, not metal, 2021 40x45cm, Oil on canvas
Exhibition view
Self Made, C.E.O, 2021, 40x45cm, Oil on canvas
Self Made, C.E.O, 2021, 40x45cm, Oil on canvas
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Untitled (Mountain), 42x30cm, Oil on canvas
Hollywood is that way, 2021, Inner diameter 40cm, dimensions variable, Wood, acrylic, capsules, resin adhesive,Balenciaga Hourglass bag replica
Hollywood is that way, 2021, Inner diameter 40cm, dimensions variable, Wood, acrylic, capsules, resin adhesive,Balenciaga Hourglass bag replica
Elizabeth watches over patrons, 2021, 43x45cm, Oil on canvas
Exhibition view
Perfect penthouse (I want more), 2021, 43x43cm, Oil on canvas,
Perfect penthouse (I want more), 2021, 43x43cm, Oil on canvas,
Living doll with water element 43x43cm, Oil on canvas
Living doll with water element 43x43cm, Oil on canvas
Exhibition view
Living doll with water element 43x43cm, Oil on canvas
Exhibition view
Rubiks Cube, 2021, 42x30cm, Oil on canvas
Elizabeth watches over patrons, 2021, 43x45cm, Oil on canvas
Untitled (Mountain), 42x30cm, Oil on canvas
Caviar on shell, not metal, 2021 40x45cm, Oil on canvas
Exhibiton View
Exhibiton View
Barbii Production Line (01 ), 2021, Dimensions variable
Untitled, 2021, Latex gloves, darts, cat carrier backpack, glue, gelatin capsules, replica miu miu sweater. Dimensions variable.